Lagundi, a five-leaved chaste plant is a common backyard shrub in the Philippines, and is is one of the ten herbal medicines available in the country recommended by the Department of Health (DoH) as an effective herbal medicine with proven therapeutic value.

In the Philippines, banaba is known to be an ornamental plant that is usually propagated in urban parks and along thoroughfares because of its beautiful flowers which are racemes of pink to lavender that are evenly distributed among its branches.

In a study published in August in the journal Arthritis Care and Research found that among 455 patients with painful knee arthritis, they underwent an acupuncture treatment in which thin needles are inserted into the skin at specific points on the body.

Every year, the number of people suffering from kidney stones has gone unabated. This is because a lot of people has continued to live in an unhealthy lifestyle that sometimes lead to health complications and more so to the impairment of the body’s vital organs such as the kidney.